Job Description

JOB TITLE: SENIOR DEVOPS / INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER

REPORTS TO: CTO

POSITION TYPE: FULL TIME / PERM – REMOTE

Seeking a skilled operations engineer with experience managing and operating Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure. As our first dedicated ops hire, you’ll have a unique opportunity to shape what our ops landscape looks like for the future.

This is a full-time, remote position. We’re primarily based in Portland, OR and expect working hours to overlap at least 4 hours with 9am–5pm US Pacific time.

WE’RE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WHO:

• Are great communicators — Effective communication is key to how we work. We value patience and empathy in our product planning, support, and day-to-day relations.
• Work well both collaboratively and independently
• Are ready to learn and share knowledge — Everyone comes to our company with their own set of skills and experiences. Cross-training, code review, mentorship, and curiosity all help us build better products.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage and operate the cloud infrastructure components. Currently Google Cloud + GKE Kubernetes, configured with Terraform
• Collaborate with our development and data teams to automate deployment of applications, jobs, and services
• Define operational procedures, on-call management, and incident response plans
• Contribute to our long-term architecture and infrastructure roadmap
• Create and implement monitoring tools to provide visibility into infrastructure and application performance, stability, uptime, and cost
• Optimize for performant content delivery through CDN implementation and cache management

YOU HAVE:

• 4+ years of relevant experience in a DevOps, site reliability, or software engineering role
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure components (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc), operating Kubernetes, and working with containerized workloads
• Familiarity with Terraform or similar infrastructure automation tools
• Linux administration expertise
• Fluency in at least one programming language
• Strong planning and organizational skills

EXTRA CREDIT 

• Experience running in production
• Knowledge of automated infrastructure testing practices
• Experience defining and optimizing dynamic application scaling
• Familiarity with content delivery and cache control for HTML, image, and video content

Ruby and/or NodeJS applications

PRE-EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENT: 

All employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of our pre-employment screening that may include drug testing, background/criminal check, and if applicable, must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

ABOUT APR STAFFING:

APR Staffing was born from the merger of two well-respected technical staffing firms in Portland.  ieSolutions, founded in 2002, enjoyed an impressive reputation as one of the largest locally-owned and most respected technical staffing companies.  Professional Resource Group, aka Data Resource Group, founded in 2009, also earned regional acclaim for being a fast-growing and highly-motivated professional staffing agency.  Both companies have been recent award winners for the Portland Business Journal's Fastest-Growing Private Companies.  The two firms, now as APR Staffing, make for one of the fastest-growing and most-respected professional and technical staffing companies in Oregon and Southwest Washington.

Collaborating with our customers, we augment their workforce with technical and administrative professionals.  We provide only high-caliber, professional-grade resources throughout the Pacific Northwest.

APR STAFFING is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Company Description

APR Staffing was born from the merging of two well-respected staffing firms in Portland. ieSolutions, founded in 2002, has a long history as one of the largest locally owned technical staffing companies. Professional Resource Group, aka Data Resource Group, founded in 2009, also earned wide-spread acclaim for being a fast-growing and highly motivated professional staffing agency. Both companies have been recent award winners for the Portland Business Journal's Fastest Growing Private Companies. The two firms, now as APR Staffing, make for one of the fastest growing and most respected professional staffing companies in Oregon and Southwest Washington. Collaborating with our customers, we augment their workforce with technical and administrative talent. We provide information technology, engineering, operation, technician, analyst, project management and administrative talent to our clients through out the Pacific Northwest. APR Staffing is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.